Functions Of The Family Feminist Perspective Flashcards

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What do all feminists believe about family

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Females are exploited and oppressed and a critical due to patriarchy family is a source of female oppression

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Radical feminists

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Seaman as the anime women are exploited and impressed by men as men benefit directly and indirectly from women’s oppression they are a press through domestic violence sacrifice in their careers carrying out unpaid domestic labor dual burden excluded from decision making they want to remove patriarchy and replace it with matriarchy more divorce as women no longer prepared to Put with the oppression the experience that’s not

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Marxists feminists

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see capitalism as the anime as it’s root cause of patriarchy women reproduce next generation of workers they are the reserve army of labor carry out unpaid domestic labor that allows our husbands to work to the exploitation of women in the family as being caused by the exploitation of the working class the solution is communist Revolution however communist countries women are still oppressed and exploited

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Liberal feminists

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Recognise women are on equal suggest it’s by ignorance and sexual stereotypes campaigns like the sex discrimination arts take a progressive view of the family and point to the fact that the distribution of domestic labor is more equal they suggest the family has become more symmetrical they take a march of progress view that things have improved but are not equal gender equality can be achieved through changing laws and attitudes

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Difference feminists

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Not all women experience oppression in the same way we can’t generalize women’s experiences as it’s different depending on race sexuality class and disability for some groups women can find the family to be a source of empowerment

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Feminists strengths evaluation

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Supporting abdoms women do more domestic labour the man widespread evidence of women experiencing domestic violence

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Feminist evaluation negatives

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Ignore positives many women find running a home and raising children rewarding
Out-to-date not all families in nuclear with a male head ignores changes that I’ve taken place in recent years couples can now both work also women who choose to be single parents and lesbian families

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